767

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	7th century – 8th century – 9th century
Decades:	730s  740s  750s  – 760s –  770s  780s  790s
Years:	764 765 766 – 767 – 768 769 770

767 by topic

Politics

State leaders – Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishment and disestablishment categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

767 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	767 DCCLXVII
Ab urbe condita	1520
Armenian calendar	216 ԹՎ ՄԺԶ
Assyrian calendar	5517
Bengali calendar	174
Berber calendar	1717
Buddhist calendar	1311
Burmese calendar	129
Byzantine calendar	6275–6276
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3463 or 3403     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3464 or 3404
Coptic calendar	483–484
Discordian calendar	1933
Ethiopian calendar	759–760
Hebrew calendar	4527–4528
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	823–824
- Shaka Samvat	689–690
- Kali Yuga	3868–3869
Holocene calendar	10767
Iranian calendar	145–146
Islamic calendar	149–150
Japanese calendar	Tenpyō-jingo 3 / Jingo-keiun 1 (神護景雲元年)
Julian calendar	767 DCCLXVII
Korean calendar	3100
Minguo calendar	1145 before ROC 民前1145年
Seleucid era	1078/1079 AG
Thai solar calendar	1309–1310

Year 767 (DCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 767 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine–Bulgarian War: Emperor Constantine V invades Thrace and penetrates with a Byzantine expeditionary force across the Balkan Mountains, setting afire some settlements around the Bulgarian capital of Pliska. Constantine accepts a peace agreement with Pagan, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire, whose land is in anarchy.^[1]

Europe

• The Franks under king Pepin III ("the Short") destroy resistance in central Aquitaine. He conquers the capital of Bordeaux and devastates the whole region.
• Pepin III receives at his court in Gentilly (southern suburbs of Paris) a Byzantine delegation. They discuss foreign policy regarding Italy and Iconoclasm.

Africa

• The Kharijite Berbers of Tlemcen and Tiaret try to conquer Ifriqiya from the Abbasid Caliphate but fail to conquer the capital of Kairouan (modern Tunisia).

By topic

Religion

• June 28 – Pope Paul I dies at Rome after a 10-year reign in which he has protested against Constantine V's revival of Iconoclasm at Constantinople. He gives refuge to Greek monks who were expelled from the Byzantine Empire and moves relics of many saints from the catacombs to Roman churches. Duke Toto of Nepi has his layman brother elected to succeed Paul under the name Constantine II.

Births

• Bishr al-Hafi, Muslim theologian (approximate date)
• Ja'far ibn Yahya, Persian vizier (d. 803)
• Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi`i, Muslim imam (d. 820)
• Pepin the Hunchback, son of Charlemagne (approximate date)
• September 15 – Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (d. 822)

Deaths

• Abū Hanīfa, Muslim imam and scholar (b. 699)
• Aedh Ailghin, king of Uí Maine (Ireland)
• Constantine II, patriarch of Constantinople
• Ibn Ishaq, Muslim historian and hagiographer (or 761)
• Ibn Jurayj, Muslim scholar (approximate date)
• Murchad mac Flaithbertaig, chief of the Cenél Conaill
• Muqatil ibn Sulayman, Muslim mufassir and theologian
• June 28 – Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700)
• April 20 – Taichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (b. 682)
• Toktu, ruler (khagan) of the Bulgarian Empire

References

1. John V.A. Fine, Jr (1991). The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century, p. 77. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3